Wyoming · Carbon County
Occurrence

Lena Shields Group

Carbon County, Wyoming, United States
Copper
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Commodities
PrimaryCopper
Commodity typeM
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Discovery year1903
Identification
Deposit ID10254317
MRDS IDW900427
Alternate namesClaims include: Lena Shields, Ruth Anderson, Center Valley, Ultimagable
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates41.19167, -107.01194
References
Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 49, 121.Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 45, 109.Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 20.Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 174.Houston and Graff, 1995, USGS Map I-2452.Graff, 1978, Univ. of Wyo., PhD thesis, 85 p.Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming, AML Inventory, [undated]: U.S. Bureau of Mines unpublished and undated inventory available at the USDA Forest Service office in Saratoga, WY.